The dad asked the kid’s permission before making the rounds on the TV the last couple of days. Seems like a pretty humble kid with a proud father who isn’t trying to hog the limelight. And that was a damn good shot.

Consider the Emergency Alert System of the Twelve Monkeys, otherwise known as cable tv. Somewhere in one of America’s psych wards yesterday, someone predicted that the boy would be found in a box in the attic of the garage. The tape is probably being burned right now.

How much longer will we try to track a Higgs boson, now that we know the search is being sabotaged and aborted from a future timeline?